The head of Canada’s state-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) claimed its employees, in particular its journalists, face rising “threats” to do their job in a “safe” manner but could give no examples of any instances of actual threats made to any reporters.

According to CBC’s CEO Catherine Tait, in her Annual Report sent to Parliament, her network workers “face rising threats to their safety both online and in the field.”

The most dangerous country in the world for journalists in 2022 was Mexico, followed by Ukraine. A total of 57 journalists have been killed doing their jobs in 2022 alone, with 11 of those being in Mexico and eight in Ukraine. The last year a Canadian reporter was killed while working in Canada was in 1998.

Despite this fact, during the Freedom Convoy of 2022 held in protest of COVID mandates, the CBC hired security to follow every reporter who left to cover the protest on the ground in Ottawa.